Draft Genome Sequence of Erwinia dacicola, a Dominant Endosymbiont of Olive Flies

Anne M Estes; David J Hearn; Suvarna Nadendla; Elizabeth A Pierson; Julie C Dunning Hotopp

doi:10.1128/MRA.01067-18

Draft Genome Sequence of Erwinia dacicola, a Dominant Endosymbiont of Olive Flies

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Sep 13;7(10):e01067-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01067-18. eCollection 2018 Sep.

Authors

Anne M Estes^{1

2}, David J Hearn², Suvarna Nadendla¹, Elizabeth A Pierson³, Julie C Dunning Hotopp^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, Maryland, USA.
³ Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Abstract

Erwinia dacicola is a dominant endosymbiont of the pestiferous olive fly. Its genome is similar in size and GC content to those of free-living Erwinia species, including the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora. The E. dacicola genome encodes the metabolic capability to supplement and detoxify the olive fly's diet in larval and adult stages.